Using a sniff dog to check for suspected tumors
Part of Cancer clinical trials.
This trial studies whether a trained sniff dog can help detect or rule out tumors in people with suspicious spots and in healthy people without tumors. It may be useful as a quick screening tool alongside regular medical tests.
Summary written for real people, not researchers, by Clin2.
Who can take part
- You must be either a healthy volunteer with no tumors, or a patient with a spot suspected to be a tumor
- Healthy volunteers must already have had standard testing that showed no tumors
- Patients must be from breast surgery, chest (thoracic) surgery, gynecology, or neurosurgery
- Patients must have a lesion (spot) that looks like it could be a tumor
- You must not have had a pathology result yet (no biopsy/pathology diagnosis done)
Quick eligibility check
Answer a few plain-language questions, based on this study's own requirements, to get a preliminary sense of fit.
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